At the beginning of the novel, Moishe the Beadle is deported across the Hungarian border because he is a foreign Jew. He is also the only Jew living in Sighet that ends up witnessing the Gestapo committing atrocities in the Galician forest.

What happened to Moshe the Beadle when he was deported?

When all the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, Moishe the Beadle was among them. After pretending to be dead among a number of Jews being left for dead among many Jews who had been shot, Moishe returns to Sighet.

Why was Moshe the Beadle deported quizlet?

Why was Moishe the Beadle deported? Because he was a foreigner. Originally, it was believed that only foreign Jews were being deported. ... The Jews in Sighet were indifferent, as they assumed only foreign Jews were being deported, and that they would simply live somewhere else.